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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 13 May, 2019
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  We can't investigate bug reports unless you follow all the bug report guidelines. They're there to make sure we can help.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  I just updated the docs. It's very simple: just add "isAsync": true to the action definition, make the action method an async function, and then Wait for previous actions to complete will also wait for the action.

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  It might be a bug, but it's hard to tell from such little information. What do you mean by "preview stopped working"? It's always helpful to post your actual project file.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Construct 3 is written in JavaScript, which is a garbage collected language. This means memory is not freed until garbage collection happens, which can take a while, and to improve performance won't be done if there's no immediate need to (e.g. the system has plenty of memory free). So you can't sit watching memory readings and expect immediate changes.

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  Use the Share object. Look at the 'Taking screenshots' example which shows how to share a screenshot.

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  Look at the 'Taking screenshots' example, which can share a screenshot.

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  • 12 May, 2019
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  I'm afraid there's nothing we can do to help from this information alone. If you have trouble please file a bug following all the guidelines.

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  • 12 May, 2019
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  It might be this bug. It's hard to tell unless you follow the full bug report guidelines though - they're there so we can help.

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  • 12 May, 2019
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  It's a bug in the Android webview.

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  • 11 May, 2019
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  The Physics behavior hasn't been able to change the properties of disabled behaviors ever since Construct 2. I don't believe there is any recent change in this area. It's very common that people mis-attribute their own changes, or other factors, to Construct, but it is possible there is some backwards-incompatible change between r142.3 and r148. If there is we can fix it, but first we'd need a clear identification of what it really is. If you want to dig further in to this the bug report guidelines have been carefully crafted over the years to help you do exactly that, so I'd recommend following that as closely as you can, and to look elsewhere than Physics, because the evidence indicates that is not the cause of the problem. You may well eventually find it is just some other mistake you made though - it happens all the time, and even happens to us with the bugs we file with browser vendors!

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 10 May, 2019
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  Please file bugs on the issue tracker and refer to the C3 runtime manual entry for browser support details.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 10 May, 2019
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  Thanks for spotting, fixed.

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  • 10 May, 2019
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  It's not sensible to use timescale to fast-forward the game because:

  - it will result in too large steps per tick for any of the game logic to work correctly

  - even if the engine did additional steps to compensate, running at 100x speed will require 100x the system resources - so you will hit the system hard locking the CPU on maximum usage, and likely not get close to 100x speed as a result. (e.g. if your game uses 10% cpu, this approach could only let you speed up to 10x before you run out of CPU time to go any faster)

  The solution, as with most things in games, is to fake it. Just use 'set position' or use some other kind of effect to advance the game faster. The user likely cannot actually follow what's happening at 100x speed anyway, so you just need to make it look convincing while moving the player far ahead enough to save them time.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 10 May, 2019
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  We also need you to follow all the bug report guidelines, such as providing an example project, to be able to help.